Connect Other Events to Hiroshima Bomb Attacks

1 January 2017

The book of Hiroshima had many events that can connect to events that have happened throughout time before and after the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, some of these events that relate are: 1)Nagasaki was a major event that could relate the most to the bombing of Hiroshima. They can relate in that Nagasaki suffered the same fate as Hiroshima in August 1945. The bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered.

Considerable damage was done to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the horrific injuries suffered at Hiroshima were also witnessed at Nagasaki. 2)9/11 was the other event that could relate to Hiroshima because they were both unexpected attacks to a country, in which innocent people suffered the consequences. Both attacks hurt both countries and caused major disturbance and made many people afraid of what was going to happen next.

Both incidents will always be remembered as unnecessary, unfair and hard to overcome. )The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that also relates to the Hiroshima event because it hurt the people and some died as well. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe. It is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. 4)Pearl Harbor was another event related to Hiroshima.

It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. They relate in being unexpected and hurting people as well. 5)The Holocaust was another horrible event where it is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe. An estimated 1. 1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust. This relates to Hiroshima in guiltless and innocent people dying and suffering.